Infinite Thought (Continuum Impacts)
by Alain Badiou
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Author: Alain BadiouEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-01
ISBN: 0826479294
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Continuum
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Book Review: At last French philosophy goes beyond post-modernist confabulations
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this book because I liked the title, although I was suspicious that it would be one more post-modern ranting, because the philosopher is a contemporary Frenchman. However, the essays collected in this work represent a new ray of hope of combining whatever is positive in post-structuralist and post-modern criticism with essential debates on the ethical and the political.
Badiou is both a critic of these traditions and in some sense continues these traditions. His presumptions on the question of the subject (as consituted rather than constituting), etc., remain quite post-structuralist. His basic system of 'situation' and 'event' makes it seem as if humans respond only in fidelity to events and the situation as such cannot directly elicit a response without reference to an event. And it does not resolve how a subject is consituted by fidelity of response when the fidelity of response itself presupposes a subject.
Yet his philosophical ontology based on set theory is welcome and refreshing. And above all his open-minded humility towards inquiry makes him a stark contrast to dogmatically minded 'endists' of all hues who have permeated much of conteporary discourse.
The essays in the book do not form a system or a whole, but references to his basic philosophical system based on the theory of sets abound. His elaboration of concepts of situation and event based on set theory and his new theory of subjectivity as fidelity of response, in spite of its logical shortcomings open the way for the ethical and political which recent French philosophy had almost closed.
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